PFIM

Overview

Fricke et al. (2022) methods discuss how in the “using functional traits (especially binary or categorical traits), one can overestimate the ecological similarity of species, and thus the similarity of interaction patterns”.

The Paleo Food web Inference Model (PFIM, Shaw et al. (2024)) uses a series of rules for a set of trait categories (such as habitat and body size) to determine if an interaction can feasibly occur between a species pair.

Methods

Example

using CSV
using DataFrames

include("lib/pfim/pfim.jl")

df = DataFrame(CSV.File("data/toarcian_subset.csv"))

pfim_network = PFIM(df)

randomdraws(pfim_network)

A binary unipartite network
 → 11 interactions
 → 12 species

References

Fricke, Evan C., Chia Hsieh, Owen Middleton, Daniel Gorczynski, Caroline D. Cappello, Oscar Sanisidro, John Rowan, Jens-Christian Svenning, and Lydia Beaudrot. 2022. “Collapse of Terrestrial Mammal Food Webs Since the Late Pleistocene.” Science 377 (6609): 1008–11. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn4012.

Shaw, Jack O., Alexander M. Dunhill, Andrew P. Beckerman, Jennifer A. Dunne, and Pincelli M. Hull. 2024. “A Framework for Reconstructing Ancient Food Webs Using Functional Trait Data.” https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.01.30.578036.